March 2013
ANDREA BIANCONI: LOVE STORY
March 22 - April 20, 2013
Andrea Bianconi; WHERE?; Bicycle, glue, white enamel; 35 x 16 x 28 inches; 2013
Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Love Story, a new solo-exhibition by internationally known Italian artist Andrea Bianconi, opening Friday, March 22, 2013, with an artist reception from 6:30 - 8:30pm and an artist performance at 7:30pm. Love Story is Andrea Bianconi’s fifth solo-exhibition at Barbara Davis Gallery. There will also be a book signing opening night of Bianconi’s recently published artist book Romance, published by cura.books in September of 2012.
Andrea Bianconi’s exhibition Love Story is comprised of paintings, sculptures, a site-specific wall drawing, and an artist performance, all of which integrate a wide array of materials. In a series of paintings titled IGLOO, Bianconi combines flowers, glue, concrete, and enamel to create a distinct sculptural texture on the surface of the canvas. His multi-layered sculptures relay a narrative through what he calls a “reverse archeology”. Using concrete, glue, and a variety of glazes, Bianconi looks for the crystallization of found objects. Chairs, bicycles, and vases undergo a unique transformation through the process of layering materials. The site-specific wall drawing incorporates black flowers, paint, and transparent paper, and questions the contrapositions between static and dynamic moments. A significant component within the exhibition is Bianconi’s performance on opening night. Essentially, Love Story invites the viewer to explore the complexities of Bianconi’s alternative processes and overarching concepts.
About the Artist:
Andrea Bianconi lives and works in New York and Vicenza, Italy. He was recently selected as one of the participating artists in the upcoming 2013 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. His solo-exhibitions and group shows include Centro del Carmen, Valencia, Spain; Matadero, Madrid, Spain; Film Society Lincoln Center, New York; Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; Kunsthal Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Embassy of Italy in Washington DC; ISCP, Brooklyn, NY; Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy; Vernon Projekt, Prague, Czech Republic; Furini Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas; Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy; Volta Show, New York.
Bianconi has also had numerous public art performances such as Summer Night Series, Union Square NYC; Tina B -The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech; Republic Postcard People, Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA), NY; The Chinese Umbrella Hat Project (Part I), Wujiang Rd West Nanjing Rd, Shanghai, China a collateral event of the Expo 2010; The Chinese Umbrella Hat Project (Part II), Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy a collateral event of the Venice Biennial 2011. His work has been reviewed in leading art journals and mainstream publications alike, among them Flash Art, Vougue Pelle, Double Magazine, Elle Décor, ARTE, and Espoarte. In September 2012, Cura.Books published his artist book, “ROMANCE”.
Click here to view the artist's CV and see more examples of his work.
Andrea Bianconi’s exhibition Love Story is comprised of paintings, sculptures, a site-specific wall drawing, and an artist performance, all of which integrate a wide array of materials. In a series of paintings titled IGLOO, Bianconi combines flowers, glue, concrete, and enamel to create a distinct sculptural texture on the surface of the canvas. His multi-layered sculptures relay a narrative through what he calls a “reverse archeology”. Using concrete, glue, and a variety of glazes, Bianconi looks for the crystallization of found objects. Chairs, bicycles, and vases undergo a unique transformation through the process of layering materials. The site-specific wall drawing incorporates black flowers, paint, and transparent paper, and questions the contrapositions between static and dynamic moments. A significant component within the exhibition is Bianconi’s performance on opening night. Essentially, Love Story invites the viewer to explore the complexities of Bianconi’s alternative processes and overarching concepts.
About the Artist:
Andrea Bianconi lives and works in New York and Vicenza, Italy. He was recently selected as one of the participating artists in the upcoming 2013 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. His solo-exhibitions and group shows include Centro del Carmen, Valencia, Spain; Matadero, Madrid, Spain; Film Society Lincoln Center, New York; Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; Kunsthal Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Embassy of Italy in Washington DC; ISCP, Brooklyn, NY; Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy; Vernon Projekt, Prague, Czech Republic; Furini Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas; Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy; Volta Show, New York.
Bianconi has also had numerous public art performances such as Summer Night Series, Union Square NYC; Tina B -The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech; Republic Postcard People, Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA), NY; The Chinese Umbrella Hat Project (Part I), Wujiang Rd West Nanjing Rd, Shanghai, China a collateral event of the Expo 2010; The Chinese Umbrella Hat Project (Part II), Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy a collateral event of the Venice Biennial 2011. His work has been reviewed in leading art journals and mainstream publications alike, among them Flash Art, Vougue Pelle, Double Magazine, Elle Décor, ARTE, and Espoarte. In September 2012, Cura.Books published his artist book, “ROMANCE”.
Click here to view the artist's CV and see more examples of his work.
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